He deeeed he deeeeed!

Huntsman is positioning himself for something, just not sure what:

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. spent much of the day Tuesday explaining his support for civil unions, while critics — especially lawmakers — fumed he’d gone too far.

“I’m looking at it in its broadest sense … these are more the contractual rights I’m referring to,” the governor told the Deseret News during one of a number of media interviews. “It’s not like we’re pushing a major initiative here.”

Huntsman said his spokeswoman, Lisa Roskelley, was responding to a reporter’s question when she said he supported civil unions as well as the “Common Ground” legislative initiative intended to extend the benefits of marriage to gay and other nontraditional couples.

“I’m a firm believer in the traditional construct of marriage, a man and a woman,” the governor said. “But I also think that we can go a greater distance in enhancing equal rights for others in nontraditional relationships.”

I wonder what Willard thinks about another Mormon in national politics so soon after his failed presidential bid, alongside his next one?

O sweet.

Digg is open

Whatever his intention, maybe this will serve to further splinter the party. Whatever happened to Reagan’s admonition that “a Republican should never speak ill of another Republican.” Hah!

Too bad Obama couldn’t get any Republican support for the stimulus, huh? What a failure.

Boom goes the dynamite!

Well those days are over along with “deficits don’t matter”.

Huntsman’s a billionaire, so perhaps that explains part of it. From his wiki:

Huntsman’s name has appeared on some lists of potential Republican nominees for the 2012 presidential election.[6]

o/t

This is as good as it gets. Murdoch apologizes.

That’s not a real apology. It’s one of those phony ones that sez, oh golly gee, we didn’t mean to step on your excessively sensitive toes. A real apology would read: The cartoon was racist. That is inexcusable. We apologize for our incredible error and are taking steps to make sure it never happens again.

So be it if he’s doing this because he wants to run. There are far too many wingnuts in his party to ever get him elected. I love to watch the republics eat their own for once.

As for the guy delivering the GOP’s response to Obama tonight? Huntsman doesn’t think much of him, either.

It’s not important to the Republics what anyone thinks of their guy tonite. He’s only a place holder until Limpy Limbaugh starts bloviating tommorow.

I’m just getting acquainted with him, so what I’m about to type is an initial impression. It strikes me that he’s saying what he really thinks, and although he may have higher political aspirations, he (unlike the Mittster) is unwilling to toe the R line to do it.

No, good as it gets would be GWB apologizing. Holding breath . . .

Could not agree more. Putting country ahead of party and a republic to boot. Who’d have thought….

whooooooosh. . .

While calling the stim bill bad legislation.

Oh my comment is meant to be read as sardonic, not gloaty.

I agree but, well, he does say they made a mistake. He also said in so many words, sorta kinda, that hey, we don’t get it and we’re working to become more sensitive, which means they were incredibly insensitive. Yes, they still claim that it was not intended this way and that’s lame.

Gov. Huntsman seems to have a self-awareness that other rethugs are lacking. He can also read polls.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02…..=2&hp

Just bringing it over to the Lake, people! Far be it for me to defend murdoch of all people. ugh.

Did you see my link to Amy Goodman interviewing Utah Phillips a while back?

OT, just read that Sullenberger testified to Congress today that his salary has been cut 40% over the last few years and his pension is kaput. Hmmm. Talk about shining a bright light in dark places.

yep, goopers must mutate or die. but I think that’s against their religion?

I see you watched Keith last night too. I loved that segment.

Only because being a Republic is their actual religion.

Someone wrote in the comments on thinkprogress that apparently the Murdoch org is having trouble adjusting to the Obama admin.

Murdoch’s biographer was on book-tv last weekend. He (the biographer) is a hoot, very outspoken. When asked whether Murdoch was sincere about being embarrassed by Fox, his response went something like this: Well, Murdoch is kind of a hen-pecked guy. His first wife was a wingnut, but his second wife is much more liberal and their social set has changed. Ruppert really doesn’t like going to cocktail parties and getting ragged raw about Fox.

And he acted as a pure professional the whole time. I’d be willing to bet management of whatever airline he flies for wouldn’t have displayed that type of integrity.

Mostly their religion is Mammon worship, but the billionaire’s son seems to have transcended such dogma. ;)

He misses the point entirely. I don’t understand why anyone still reads the trash he prints.

The ship started sinking 3 years ago. Every rat for himself.

No, no, mutating is good! No sex required! Ergo, birth control moot.

This is re dosido’s 23.

This is excellent! Reminds me of the mayor of Salt Lake City protesting Cheney being their. Wasn’t it Rocky Anderson?

Now the freaking governor? HA!

ah, there.

However, Anderson’s a D, Huntsman’s a R. Thus the popcorn.

All I can think of is Eddie Izzard’s popcorn eating routine. mmmmm….mmmmmm..mmmmm yumyum…..

Yeah, but Huntsman probably thinks the real leaders of the party are Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin

Huntsman is indeed on to something. Not only is he paying no attention to the idiot republics, America is paying no attention. It’s become painfully obvious that the R’s in Congress are living on Mars.

LOL. sorry for delayed laughing…trying to clean up my office disaster area at the moment…

SD, are you still here? I’m not ignoring you, I was trying to stalk your dragon self on that day, but couldn’t catch up!

Yes, I saw the link, haven’t listened yet. I will soon, promise. Someone else posted some tasty quotes from Utah, so he sounds very intriguing.

I recommend the Briggs & Stratton 9 HP “Extreme Classic”. Just point it at the desk and let it rip.

Huntsman’s gunning for a Presidential run in 2012 (the Salt Lake Trib had an article about it last week). Which is pretty useless…the hard right will reject him, and the left will wonder why we need a Pres. from the most theocratic state in the nation.